The purpose of Litarena is very simple. It's to read books and find out whether we think they are:
Good, Bad, or Excellent, and then take the excellent ones and compile an Excellence Index of small
press and no press books. It will contain those with excellent book reviews, awards and various other
characteristics of excellence.

The Challenge:
Publishing fiction by unknown authors is risky. We understand that. Some publishers don't mind telling
authors that they write well but won't be published there. Some avoid doing this for fear of being
pestered. Regardless of how publishers communicate, it's clear that an unknown number of good, new works
of fiction are not getting published or if they are getting published nobody knows about them. The challenge
of course is to locate them!
At Litarena we understand that meeting that challenge involves reading all of the small press published, self-published
/unpublished fiction books and sorting them into categories. It's a large undertaking, which
probably explains the reason why nobody has ever done it before! We might guess that the number of excellent
books might be small. Until we've read them all we won't know. But, unlike a considerable number of people,
we don't believe in speculating about the content of books we have never read on the basis of their publishing
fortunes.

Put simply, we believe that there is only one way to judge a book; and that is to read it.

So, that's exactly what we're going to do.

We don't publish.
Litarena doesn't publish work and it doesn't interact with publishers of any kind. Its only purpose is
to review self-published fiction books in order to find out whether they're good, bad or excellent. Litarena
book reviewing is a free service. And it does nothing else.

I want my novel reviewed too

You too can have your book reviewed. The principle behind Litarena is simple: Litarena wants to
find all of the excellent, self-published & small press authors and review their books.